I've noticed that every newbie / most white names always choose to download using UDP whenever they connect to the domination server. If I didn't know that downloading from the server actually means downloading from the server using UDP, and that downloading from a website actually downloads the files automatically using cURL instead of taking me to a website so that I can manually find and download the right files myself, I would always choose download from server. Edit: Many of the people downloading the two packages via UDP gave up downloading because it was too slow.

I'd say change website to "download" and then have smaller at the bottom "alternate (slow) download" or something for udp.

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I also realize that this is the internet, but even more so this is the forum for a video game on an internet, then even beyond that this is TREMULOUS forums the Satan version of all video game forums for a video game that is ON the internet.

I would imagine it would be better to have it say "HTTP (faster)" and "UDP (slower)", and perhaps a bit about why UDP is there in the download prompt's text.

This minimizes confusion about speed, method, and reason.

The word "Website" makes most people think that the game would close, a website would open, and they would download on their own. HTTP tells you exactly how, and if someone (for some reason) doesn't know what HTTP is, they can just see the (faster) and decide which one they want.

I would imagine it would be better to have it say "HTTP (faster)" and "UDP (slower)", and perhaps a bit about why UDP is there in the download prompt's text.

This minimizes confusion about speed, method, and reason.

The word "Website" makes most people think that the game would close, a website would open, and they would download on their own. HTTP tells you exactly how, and if someone (for some reason) doesn't know what HTTP is, they can just see the (faster) and decide which one they want.

Right. I'd go with this. Including the method of downloading is more specific and gives more information to knowledgeable players.

Yeah Whale's sounds good, and for the explanation, why not just link the words "More Info" to an explanation.

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I also realize that this is the internet, but even more so this is the forum for a video game on an internet, then even beyond that this is TREMULOUS forums the Satan version of all video game forums for a video game that is ON the internet.

Today the future of mapping and modding in Tremulous is finally secure. The above shot shows what new players with cl_allowDownload=0 will see in Trem 1.2 when they attempt to connect to a server requiring a download.

That was true for me until 2 days ago (Jan 28), when my client started blowing up. When joining AA, the download dialog would flash onscreen for 30 ms, and then the client would abort, leaving my colormap totally hosed with an extremely high gamma. The only way to fix the colormap is to reboot Windows. I set cl_allowDownload 1 and now I can play on AA again (other servers were not affected), but did a download bug pop up recently?